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Rohingya refugees in India sketch their stories in a comic bookSubscriber Only
February 20, 2020 08:19 IST
Put together by World Comics India, a collective that promotes comics as a communication and empowerment tool for the marginalised, the book is an outcome of a workshop conducted by the organisation with around 50-60 Rohingya refugees in Kalindi Kunj and Nuh, Mewat.
Shanta Gokhale’s latest book draws an intimate portrait of Shivaji ParkSubscriber Only
February 20, 2020 08:23 IST
Gokhale’s portrait of Shivaji Park restores the neighbourhood’s heterogeneous character, starting with some of the earliest historical evidence of the people who migrated here when Mumbai was still a cluster of islands and the only “natives” were fisherfolk and Adivasis.
Despite a few chefs doing stellar work, running a good restaurant in India remains difficultSubscriber Only
February 18, 2020 08:40 IST
Writer-columnist Anoothi Vishal, who, as a journalist, had documented the start of the so-called boom at the beginning of the new millennium, has examined what makes a few restaurants work where so many others fail in her new book Business on a Platter (2019).
Avni Doshi talks about exploring memory and the bitter aftertaste of messy relationshipsSubscriber Only
February 17, 2020 08:20 IST
In her debut novel, titled Girl in White Cotton, Doshi looks at familial bonds and how they damn us and unravel us. She sets the tone with her opening sentence: "I would be lying if I said my mother’s misery has never given me pleasure."
The Last Encyclopaedic MindSubscriber Only
February 16, 2020 00:49 IST
An original thinker, George Steiner’s mark on our intellectual scene is indelible.
Rocky Mountain HighSubscriber Only
February 16, 2020 00:30 IST
A valuable contribution to our understanding of the complex historiography of the Himalayas and the role of Tibet, India and China in this strategic zone.
I have started to own the woman-director identity: Nandita DasSubscriber Only
February 16, 2020 10:32 IST
Nandita Das on Manto & I, and how the book and her 2018 movie Manto, are deeply connected but not the same.
All WomanSubscriber Only
February 16, 2020 00:02 IST
An empathetic novel about the feminine experience in a world of inequality.
The significant rise of Chinese influence in the islands of the Indian OceanSubscriber Only
February 9, 2020 08:01 IST
China — like other powers that have dominated the international system — seeks hegemony and the Indian Ocean is an increasingly crucial area of operations for it to achieve this end.
Tavleen Singh on her private encounter with Narendra ModiSubscriber Only
February 9, 2020 08:05 IST
Shortly after the lynching of Pehlu Khan, Tavleen Singh was granted an audience with the Prime Minister, and found him somewhat changed.
The Time KeepersSubscriber Only
February 9, 2020 00:45 IST
What bound three of India’s eminent medievalists together? Friendship and a respect for scholarship and diversity, says TCA Raghavan in his new book.
Naveen Chourey on writing protest poetry: ‘It is the need of our times’Subscriber Only
February 4, 2020 12:13 IST
Chorey's poems are recited at numerous NRC-CAA protests and public meetings across the country. His anthology of poems titled Kohra Ghana Hai released recently.
Sahitya Akademi Award winner Dalip Kaur Tiwana passes awaySubscriber Only
February 10, 2020 19:27 IST
Dalip Kaur Tiwana had received the Padma Shri in 2004 for Literature and Education, as well as the Sahitya Akademi Award.
Bestselling author Mary Higgins Clark dead at age 92
February 1, 2020 11:18 IST
A widow with five children in her late 30s, she became a perennial best-seller over the second half of her life, writing or co-writing "A Stranger Is Watching," "Daddy's Little Girl" and more than 50 other favourites.
Sridhar Balan writes about people and places that shaped English writing in IndiaSubscriber Only
January 21, 2020 09:00 IST
In his first book, veteran publisher acquaints us with EV Rieu, who set up OUP in India and later initiated the Penguin Classics Series.
The govt would always want me to have a dagger in my hand, not a pen: Manoranjan ByapariSubscriber Only
January 12, 2020 06:04 IST
Manoranjan Byapari, who was shortlisted for the DSC Prize, tells The Indian Express what the NRC means, and why he would rather go to jail than to a detention camp
A World of His OwnSubscriber Only
January 6, 2020 06:17 IST
Australian writer Ken Spillman on forging a relationship with India, writing for children, and the power of imagination.
Artist Nilanjana Nandy’s performance art project, ‘Cover Uncover’, questions the way we view the librarySubscriber Only
December 9, 2019 08:49 IST
The inspiration for the project that concludes on December 9 came to Nandy when she went about visiting the reading rooms in and around Kochi.
Spice of LifeSubscriber Only
December 4, 2019 01:37 IST
Chef Suvir Saran on his new book and how the colour of his skin remains a challenge in the US.
Where the Sidewalk EndsSubscriber Only
December 4, 2019 01:09 IST
Hindi writer Prabhat, winner of this year’s Big Little Book Award, on being unafraid to talk to children about difficult things and why nature is significant in his books
Tony Joseph’s Early Indians wins Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize 2019
December 2, 2019 13:20 IST
In this fascinating work, Tony Joseph goes 65,000 years back into the past and concludes that none can claim ownership. We are all migrants.
Jnanpith award: Happy and Humbled by the honour, says Akkitham
November 30, 2019 17:31 IST
Born in a traditional Namboothiri (Brahmin) family in Kumaranallur in Palakkad district, Akkitham had trumpeted his arrival to Malayalam literature at the age of eight by penning his first poem.
Fatima Bhutto on her new book, Asia’s cultural influence and why Shah Rukh Khan tops the chartsSubscriber Only
November 26, 2019 08:48 IST
American pop culture is losing its relevance because of the betrayal of globalisation, says Bhutto.
On the loose: Something NovelSubscriber Only
November 25, 2019 06:21 IST
The thriving genre that’s frowned upon.
Pico Iyer offers an honest, anecdotal and arguably basic cultural kaleidoscope view of JapanSubscriber Only
November 24, 2019 08:22 IST
The book is a collection of aphoristic paragraphs arranged, apparently, in a fan-shaped design. The pretty cover seems to play with this idea, to take the reader on a journey from the outer to the inner, from arrival to the end and a new beginning.
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